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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blind%20deconvolution
In electrical engineering and applied mathematics, blind deconvolution is deconvolution without explicit knowledge of the impulse response function used in the convolution. This is usually achieved by making appropriate assumptions of the input to estimate the impulse response by analyzing the output. Blind deconvoluti...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chv%C3%A1tal%E2%80%93Sankoff%20constants
In mathematics, the Chvátal–Sankoff constants are mathematical constants that describe the lengths of longest common subsequences of random strings. Although the existence of these constants has been proven, their exact values are unknown. They are named after Václav Chvátal and David Sankoff, who began investigating t...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miraculin
Miraculin is a taste modifier, a glycoprotein extracted from the fruit of Synsepalum dulcificum. The berry, also known as the miracle fruit, was documented by explorer Chevalier des Marchais, who searched for many different fruits during a 1725 excursion to its native West Africa. Miraculin itself does not taste sweet...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biological%20rhythm
Biological rhythms are repetitive biological processes. Some types of biological rhythms have been described as biological clocks. They can range in frequency from microseconds to less than one repetitive event per decade. Biological rhythms are studied by chronobiology. In the biochemical context biological rhythms ar...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20algebraic%20constructions
An algebraic construction is a method by which an algebraic entity is defined or derived from another. Instances include: Cayley–Dickson construction Proj construction Grothendieck group Gelfand–Naimark–Segal construction Ultraproduct ADHM construction Burnside ring Simplicial set Fox derivative Mapping con...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists%20of%20mathematics%20topics
Lists of mathematics topics cover a variety of topics related to mathematics. Some of these lists link to hundreds of articles; some link only to a few. The template to the right includes links to alphabetical lists of all mathematical articles. This article brings together the same content organized in a manner better...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinGate
WinGate is an integrated multi-protocol proxy server, email server and internet gateway from Qbik New Zealand Limited in Auckland. It was first released in October 1995, and began as a re-write of SocketSet, a product that had been previously released in prototype form by Adrien de Croy. WinGate proved popular, and b...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sierpi%C5%84ski%27s%20constant
Sierpiński's constant is a mathematical constant usually denoted as K. One way of defining it is as the following limit: where r2(k) is a number of representations of k as a sum of the form a2 + b2 for integer a and b. It can be given in closed form as: where is Gauss's constant and is the Euler-Mascheroni constan...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20mathematical%20abbreviations
This following list features abbreviated names of mathematical functions, function-like operators and other mathematical terminology. This list is limited to abbreviations of two or more letters (excluding number sets). The capitalization of some of these abbreviations is not standardized – different authors might use...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relict
A relict is a surviving remnant of a natural phenomenon. Biology A relict (or relic) is an organism that at an earlier time was abundant in a large area but now occurs at only one or a few small areas. Geology and geomorphology In geology, a relict is a structure or mineral from a parent rock that did not undergo m...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRODIGAL
PRODIGAL (proactive discovery of insider threats using graph analysis and learning) is a computer system for predicting anomalous behavior among humans, by data mining network traffic such as emails, text messages and server log entries. It is part of DARPA's Anomaly Detection at Multiple Scales (ADAMS) project. The in...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zipf%27s%20law
Zipf's law (, ) is an empirical law that often holds, approximately, when a list of measured values is sorted in decreasing order. It states that the value of the nth entry is inversely proportional to n. The best known instance of Zipf's law applies to the frequency table of words in a text or corpus of natural lang...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macrocell%20array
Macrocell arrays in PLDs Programmable logic devices, such as programmable array logic and complex programmable logic devices, typically have a macrocell on every output pin. Macrocell arrays in ASICs A macrocell array is an approach to the design and manufacture of ASICs. Essentially, it is a small step up from ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antibiosis
Antibiosis is a biological interaction between two or more organisms that is detrimental to at least one of them; it can also be an antagonistic association between an organism and the metabolic substances produced by another. Examples of antibiosis include the relationship between antibiotics and bacteria or animals a...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System%20on%20a%20chip
A system on a chip or system-on-chip (SoC ; pl. SoCs ) is an integrated circuit that integrates most or all components of a computer or other electronic system. These components almost always include on-chip central processing unit (CPU), memory interfaces, input/output devices and interfaces, and secondary storage int...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AP%20Biology
Advanced Placement (AP) Biology (also known as AP Bio) is an Advanced Placement biology course and exam offered by the College Board in the United States. For the 2012–2013 school year, the College Board unveiled a new curriculum with a greater focus on "scientific practices". This course is designed for students who ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British%20Post%20Office%20scandal
The British Post Office scandal is a miscarriage of justice involving the wrongful civil and criminal prosecutions of an unknown or unpublished number of sub-postmasters (SPMs) for theft, false accounting and/or fraud. The cases constitute the most widespread miscarriage of justice in British legal history, spanning a ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20numeral%20system%20topics
This is a list of Wikipedia articles on topics of numeral system and "numeric representations" See also: computer numbering formats and number names. Arranged by base Radix, radix point, mixed radix, base (mathematics) Unary numeral system (base 1) Binary numeral system (base 2) Negative base numeral system (ba...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nomogram
A nomogram (from Greek , "law" and , "line"), also called a nomograph, alignment chart, or abac, is a graphical calculating device, a two-dimensional diagram designed to allow the approximate graphical computation of a mathematical function. The field of nomography was invented in 1884 by the French engineer Philbert...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subphylum
In zoological nomenclature, a subphylum is a taxonomic rank below the rank of phylum. The taxonomic rank of "subdivision" in fungi and plant taxonomy is equivalent to "subphylum" in zoological taxonomy. Some plant taxonomists have also used the rank of subphylum, for instance monocotyledons as a subphylum of phylum An...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20number%20theory%20topics
This is a list of number theory topics. See also: List of recreational number theory topics Topics in cryptography Divisibility Composite number Highly composite number Even and odd numbers Parity Divisor, aliquot part Greatest common divisor Least common multiple Euclidean algorithm Coprime Euclid's lemma Bézout's ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacteria
Bacteria (; : bacterium) are ubiquitous, mostly free-living organisms often consisting of one biological cell. They constitute a large domain of prokaryotic microorganisms. Typically a few micrometres in length, bacteria were among the first life forms to appear on Earth, and are present in most of its habitats. Bacter...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matheass
MatheAss (former Math-Assist) is a computer program for numerical solutions in school mathematics and functions in some points similar to Microsoft Mathematics. "MatheAss is widely spread in math classes" in Germany. For schools in the federal state of Hessen (Germany) exists a state license, which allows all secondary...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Possible%20Worlds%20%28play%29
Possible Worlds is a play written in 1990 by John Mighton. The author, Mighton, is a mathematician and philosopher. His plays tend to meld science, drama and math into one cohesive piece. It is part murder mystery, part science-fiction, and part mathematical philosophy and follows the multiple parallel lives of the mai...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comb%20generator
A comb generator is a signal generator that produces multiple harmonics of its input signal. The appearance of the output at the spectrum analyzer screen, resembling teeth of a comb, gave the device its name. Comb generators find wide range of uses in microwave technology. E.g., synchronous signals in wide frequency b...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consolidation%20ratio
Consolidation ratio within network infrastructure for Internet hosting, is the number of virtual servers that can run on each physical host machine. Many companies arrive at that figure through trial and error by stacking virtual machines on top of each other until performance slows to a crawl. “It’s sort of capacity p...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RFIC
RFIC is an abbreviation of radio-frequency integrated circuit. Applications for RFICs include radar and communications, although the term RFIC might be applied to any electrical integrated circuit operating in a frequency range suitable for wireless transmission. There is considerable interest in RFIC research due to ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20properties%20of%20sets%20of%20reals
This article lists some properties of sets of real numbers. The general study of these concepts forms descriptive set theory, which has a rather different emphasis from general topology. Definability properties Borel set Analytic set C-measurable set Projective set Inductive set Infinity-Borel set S...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20planar%20symmetry%20groups
This article summarizes the classes of discrete symmetry groups of the Euclidean plane. The symmetry groups are named here by three naming schemes: International notation, orbifold notation, and Coxeter notation. There are three kinds of symmetry groups of the plane: 2 families of rosette groups – 2D point groups 7 fri...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outline%20of%20combinatorics
Combinatorics is a branch of mathematics concerning the study of finite or countable discrete structures. Essence of combinatorics Matroid Greedoid Ramsey theory Van der Waerden's theorem Hales–Jewett theorem Umbral calculus, binomial type polynomial sequences Combinatorial species Branches of combinatorics ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microwave%20analog%20signal%20processing
Real-time Analog Signal Processing (R-ASP), as an alternative to DSP-based processing, might be defined as the manipulation of signals in their pristine analog form and in real time to realize specific operations enabling microwave or millimeter-wave and terahertz applications. The exploding demand for higher spectral...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software%20metering
Software metering is the monitoring and controlling of software for analytics and the enforcement of agreements. It can be either passive, where data is simply collected and no action is taken, or active, where access is restricted for enforcement. Types Software metering refers to several areas: Tracking and mainta...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adequality
Adequality is a technique developed by Pierre de Fermat in his treatise Methodus ad disquirendam maximam et minimam (a Latin treatise circulated in France c. 1636 ) to calculate maxima and minima of functions, tangents to curves, area, center of mass, least action, and other problems in calculus. According to André Wei...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pathatrix
Pathatrix is a high volume recirculating immuno magnetic-capture system developed by Thermo Fisher Scientific (and supplier parts by Life Technologies) for the detection of pathogens in food and environmental samples. History Pathatrix and its Pathatrix Recirculating Immunomagnetic Separation System (RIMS) was used in...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complementary%20sequences
For complementary sequences in biology, see complementarity (molecular biology). For integer sequences with complementary sets of members see Lambek–Moser theorem. In applied mathematics, complementary sequences (CS) are pairs of sequences with the useful property that their out-of-phase aperiodic autocorrelation coeff...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutual%20coherence%20%28linear%20algebra%29
In linear algebra, the coherence or mutual coherence of a matrix A is defined as the maximum absolute value of the cross-correlations between the columns of A. Formally, let be the columns of the matrix A, which are assumed to be normalized such that The mutual coherence of A is then defined as A lower bound is ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Activation
Activation, in chemistry and biology, is the process whereby something is prepared or excited for a subsequent reaction. Chemistry In chemistry, "activation" refers to the reversible transition of a molecule into a nearly identical chemical or physical state, with the defining characteristic being that this resultant...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phototaxis
Phototaxis is a kind of taxis, or locomotory movement, that occurs when a whole organism moves towards or away from a stimulus of light. This is advantageous for phototrophic organisms as they can orient themselves most efficiently to receive light for photosynthesis. Phototaxis is called positive if the movement is in...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hazards%20of%20synthetic%20biology
The hazards of synthetic biology include biosafety hazards to workers and the public, biosecurity hazards stemming from deliberate engineering of organisms to cause harm, and hazards to the environment. The biosafety hazards are similar to those for existing fields of biotechnology, mainly exposure to pathogens and tox...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big%20O%20notation
Big O notation is a mathematical notation that describes the limiting behavior of a function when the argument tends towards a particular value or infinity. Big O is a member of a family of notations invented by German mathematicians Paul Bachmann, Edmund Landau, and others, collectively called Bachmann–Landau notation...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinetic%20proofreading
Kinetic proofreading (or kinetic amplification) is a mechanism for error correction in biochemical reactions, proposed independently by John Hopfield (1974) and Jacques Ninio (1975). Kinetic proofreading allows enzymes to discriminate between two possible reaction pathways leading to correct or incorrect products with ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formula%20calculator
A formula calculator is a software calculator that can perform a calculation in two steps: Enter the calculation by typing it in from the keyboard. Press a single button or key to see the final result. This is unlike button-operated calculators, such as the Windows calculator or the Mac OS X calculator, which requi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gauss%20notation
Gauss notation (also known as a Gauss code or Gauss words) is a notation for mathematical knots. It is created by enumerating and classifying the crossings of an embedding of the knot in a plane. It is named after the German mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777–1855). Gauss code represents a knot with a sequence o...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Observer%20%28quantum%20physics%29
Some interpretations of quantum mechanics posit a central role for an observer of a quantum phenomenon. The quantum mechanical observer is tied to the issue of observer effect, where a measurement necessarily requires interacting with the physical object being measured, affecting its properties through the interaction....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Printed%20circuit%20board
A printed circuit board (PCB), also called printed wiring board (PWB), is a medium used to connect or "wire" components to one another in a circuit. It takes the form of a laminated sandwich structure of conductive and insulating layers: each of the conductive layers is designed with an artwork pattern of traces, plane...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modularity%20%28biology%29
Modularity refers to the ability of a system to organize discrete, individual units that can overall increase the efficiency of network activity and, in a biological sense, facilitates selective forces upon the network. Modularity is observed in all model systems, and can be studied at nearly every scale of biological ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Named%20data%20networking
Named Data Networking (NDN) (related to content-centric networking (CCN), content-based networking, data-oriented networking or information-centric networking (ICN)) is a proposed Future Internet architecture inspired by years of empirical research into network usage and a growing awareness of unsolved problems in cont...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal%20representation
A decimal representation of a non-negative real number is its expression as a sequence of symbols consisting of decimal digits traditionally written with a single separator: Here is the decimal separator, is a nonnegative integer, and are digits, which are symbols representing integers in the range 0, ..., 9. Co...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime%20factor%20exponent%20notation
In his 1557 work The Whetstone of Witte, British mathematician Robert Recorde proposed an exponent notation by prime factorisation, which remained in use up until the eighteenth century and acquired the name Arabic exponent notation. The principle of Arabic exponents was quite similar to Egyptian fractions; large expo...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outline%20of%20algebra
The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to algebra: Algebra is one of the main branches of mathematics, covering the study of structure, relation and quantity. Algebra studies the effects of adding and multiplying numbers, variables, and polynomials, along with their factorization and det...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Device%20under%20test
A device under test (DUT), also known as equipment under test (EUT) and unit under test (UUT), is a manufactured product undergoing testing, either at first manufacture or later during its life cycle as part of ongoing functional testing and calibration checks. This can include a test after repair to establish that the...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C-Thru%20Ruler
The C-Thru Ruler Company is an American maker of measuring devices and specialized products for drafting, designing and drawing. The company was formed in 1939 in Bloomfield, Connecticut, by Jennie R. Zachs, a schoolteacher, who saw the need for transparent measuring tools such as rulers, triangles, curves and protract...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organisms%20at%20high%20altitude
Organisms can live at high altitude, either on land, in water, or while flying. Decreased oxygen availability and decreased temperature make life at such altitudes challenging, though many species have been successfully adapted via considerable physiological changes. As opposed to short-term acclimatisation (immediate...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manycore%20processor
Manycore processors are special kinds of multi-core processors designed for a high degree of parallel processing, containing numerous simpler, independent processor cores (from a few tens of cores to thousands or more). Manycore processors are used extensively in embedded computers and high-performance computing. Cont...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gas%20exchange
Gas exchange is the physical process by which gases move passively by diffusion across a surface. For example, this surface might be the air/water interface of a water body, the surface of a gas bubble in a liquid, a gas-permeable membrane, or a biological membrane that forms the boundary between an organism and its ex...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logic%20redundancy
Logic redundancy occurs in a digital gate network containing circuitry that does not affect the static logic function. There are several reasons why logic redundancy may exist. One reason is that it may have been added deliberately to suppress transient glitches (thus causing a race condition) in the output signals by ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal%20Test%20Specification%20Language
Universal Test Specification Language (UTSL) is a programming language used to describe ASIC tests in a format that leads to an automated translation of the test specification into an executable test code. UTSL is platform independent and provided a code generation interface for a specific platform is available, UTSL c...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ERP%20security
ERP Security is a wide range of measures aimed at protecting Enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems from illicit access ensuring accessibility and integrity of system data. ERP system is a computer software that serves to unify the information intended to manage the organization including Production, Supply Chain M...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20graphical%20methods
This is a list of graphical methods with a mathematical basis. Included are diagram techniques, chart techniques, plot techniques, and other forms of visualization. There is also a list of computer graphics and descriptive geometry topics. Simple displays Area chart Box plot Dispersion fan diagram Graph of a function...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clockwise
Two-dimensional rotation can occur in two possible directions or senses of rotation. Clockwise motion (abbreviated CW) proceeds in the same direction as a clock's hands: from the top to the right, then down and then to the left, and back up to the top. The opposite sense of rotation or revolution is (in Commonwealth En...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vintage%20computer
A vintage computer is an older computer system that is largely regarded as obsolete. The personal computer has been around since approximately 1971. But in that time, numerous technological revolutions have left generations of obsolete computing equipment on the junk heap. Nevertheless, in that time, these otherwise u...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20finite%20simple%20groups
In mathematics, the classification of finite simple groups states that every finite simple group is cyclic, or alternating, or in one of 16 families of groups of Lie type, or one of 26 sporadic groups. The list below gives all finite simple groups, together with their order, the size of the Schur multiplier, the size ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West%20Bridge
The West Bridge is a growing architectural approach, originally developed by Cypress Semiconductor, which enhances and modularizes a peripheral controller in an embedded computer architecture. Conceptually, the West Bridge parallels and complements the decentralization represented by the North Bridge and the South Brid...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highly%20composite%20number
A highly composite number or antiprime is a positive integer with more divisors than any smaller positive integer has. A related concept is that of a largely composite number, a positive integer which has at least as many divisors as any smaller positive integer. The name can be somewhat misleading, as the first two h...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossary%20of%20areas%20of%20mathematics
Mathematics is a broad subject that is commonly divided in many areas that may be defined by their objects of study, by the used methods, or by both. For example, analytic number theory is a subarea of number theory devoted to the use of methods of analysis for the study of natural numbers. This glossary is alphabetic...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Host%20Based%20Security%20System
Host Based Security System (HBSS) is the official name given to the United States Department of Defense (DOD) commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) suite of software applications used within the DOD to monitor, detect, and defend the DOD computer networks and systems. The Enterprise-wide Information Assurance and computer N...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20physics%20concepts%20in%20primary%20and%20secondary%20education%20curricula
This is a list of topics that are included in high school physics curricula or textbooks. Mathematical Background SI Units Scalar (physics) Euclidean vector Motion graphs and derivatives Pythagorean theorem Trigonometry Motion and forces Motion Force Linear motion Linear motion Displacement Speed Velocity Accelerat...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epibiont
An epibiont (from the Ancient Greek meaning "living on top of") is an organism that lives on the surface of another living organism, called the basibiont ("living underneath"). The interaction between the two organisms is called epibiosis. An epibiont is, by definition, harmless to its host. In this sense, the interact...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augmented%20Reality%20Sandtable
The Augmented Reality Sandtable (ARES) is an interactive, digital sand table that uses augmented reality (AR) technology to create a 3D battlespace map. It was developed by the Human Research and Engineering Directorate (HRED) at the Army Research Laboratory (ARL) to combine the positive aspects of traditional military...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Router%20on%20a%20stick
A router on a stick, also known as a one-armed router, is a router that has a single physical or logical connection to a network. It is a method of inter-VLAN routing where one router is connected to a switch via a single cable. The router has physical connections to the broadcast domains where one or more VLANs requi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polymath%20Project
The Polymath Project is a collaboration among mathematicians to solve important and difficult mathematical problems by coordinating many mathematicians to communicate with each other on finding the best route to the solution. The project began in January 2009 on Timothy Gowers's blog when he posted a problem and asked ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integrator
An integrator in measurement and control applications is an element whose output signal is the time integral of its input signal. It accumulates the input quantity over a defined time to produce a representative output. Integration is an important part of many engineering and scientific applications. Mechanical integr...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian%20Stem%20Cell%20Foundation
The Canadian Stem Cell Foundation is an independent, non-profit organization established in 2008 and situated in Ottawa, Ontario. Stem Cell science is a Canadian innovation through the discovery of stem cells by Drs. James Till and Ernest McCulloch. It is globally known as the leading organization for stem cell researc...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entrance%20facility
In telecommunications, Entrance facility refers to the entrance to a building for both public and private network service cables (including antenna transmission lines, where applicable), including the entrance point at the building wall or floor, and continuing to the entrance room or entrance space. Entrance faciliti...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transmission-line%20pulse
Transmission-Line Pulse (TLP) is a way to study integrated circuit technologies and circuit behavior in the current and time domain of electrostatic-discharge (ESD) events. The concept was described shortly after WWII in pp. 175–189 of Pulse Generators, Vol. 5 of the MIT Radiation Lab Series. Also, D. Bradley, J. Higg...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optomyography
Optomyography (OMG) was proposed in 2015 as a technique that could be used to monitor muscular activity. It is possible to use OMG for the same applications where Electromyography (EMG) and Mechanomyography (MMG) are used. However, OMG offers superior signal-to-noise ratio and improved robustness against the disturbing...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden%20waste%20dumping
Garden waste, or green waste dumping is the act of discarding or depositing garden waste somewhere it does not belong. Garden waste is the accumulated plant matter from gardening activities which involve cutting or removing vegetation, i.e. cutting the lawn, weed removal, hedge trimming or pruning consisting of l...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wideband%20audio
Wideband audio, also known as wideband voice or HD voice, is high definition voice quality for telephony audio, contrasted with standard digital telephony "toll quality". It extends the frequency range of audio signals transmitted over telephone lines, resulting in higher quality speech. The range of the human voice ex...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archaeobiology
Archaeobiology, the study of the biology of ancient times through archaeological materials, is a subspecialty of archaeology. It can be seen as a blanket term for paleobotany, animal osteology, zooarchaeology, microbiology, and many other sub-disciplines. Specifically, plant and animal remains are also called ecofacts....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biofact%20%28biology%29
In biology, a biofact is dead material of a once-living organism. In 1943, the protozoologist Bruno M. Klein of Vienna (1891–1968) coined the term in his article Biofakt und Artefakt in the microscopy journal Mikrokosmos, though at that time it was not adopted by the scientific community. Klein's concept of biofact st...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fingerprint%20scanner
Fingerprint scanners are security systems of biometrics. They are used in police stations, security industries, smartphones, and other mobile devices. Fingerprints People have patterns of friction ridges on their fingers, these patterns are called the fingerprints. Fingerprints are uniquely detailed, durable over an i...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negative-bias%20temperature%20instability
Negative-bias temperature instability (NBTI) is a key reliability issue in MOSFETs, a type of transistor aging. NBTI manifests as an increase in the threshold voltage and consequent decrease in drain current and transconductance of a MOSFET. The degradation is often approximated by a power-law dependence on time. It is...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biological%20systems%20engineering
Biological systems engineering or Biosystems engineering is a broad-based engineering discipline with particular emphasis on non-medical biology. It can be thought of as a subset of the broader notion of biological engineering or bio-technology though not in the respects that pertain to biomedical engineering as biosys...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Host%20%28biology%29
In biology and medicine, a host is a larger organism that harbours a smaller organism; whether a parasitic, a mutualistic, or a commensalist guest (symbiont). The guest is typically provided with nourishment and shelter. Examples include animals playing host to parasitic worms (e.g. nematodes), cells harbouring pathoge...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li-Fi%20Consortium
The Li-Fi Consortium is an international organization focusing on optical wireless technologies. It was founded by four technology-based organizations in October 2011. The goal of the Li-Fi Consortium is to foster the development and distribution of (Li-Fi) optical wireless technologies such as communication, navigati...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isochore%20%28genetics%29
In genetics, an isochore is a large region of genomic DNA (greater than 300 kilobases) with a high degree of uniformity in GC content; that is, guanine (G) and cytosine (C) bases. The distribution of bases within a genome is non-random: different regions of the genome have different amounts of G-C base pairs, such that...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pipeline%20forwarding
Pipeline forwarding (PF) applies to packet forwarding in computer networks the basic concept of pipelining, which has been widely and successfully used in computing — specifically, in the architecture of all major central processing units (CPUs) — and manufacturing — specifically in assembly lines of various industrie...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless%20engineering
Wireless Engineering is the branch of engineering which addresses the design, application, and research of wireless communication systems and technologies. Overview Wireless engineering is an engineering subject dealing with engineering problems using wireless technology such as radio communications and radar, but it ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FI6%20%28antibody%29
FI6 is an antibody that targets a protein found on the surface of all influenza A viruses called hemagglutinin. FI6 is the only known antibody found to bind all 16 subtypes of the influenza A virus hemagglutinin and is hoped to be useful for a universal influenza virus therapy. The antibody binds to the F domain HA tr...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikroelektronika
MikroElektronika (stylized as MikroE) is a Serbian manufacturer and retailer of hardware and software tools for developing embedded systems. The company headquarters is in Belgrade, Serbia. Its best known software products are mikroC, mikroBasic and mikroPascal compilers for programming microcontrollers. Its flagship ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discrete%20system
In theoretical computer science, a discrete system is a system with a countable number of states. Discrete systems may be contrasted with continuous systems, which may also be called analog systems. A final discrete system is often modeled with a directed graph and is analyzed for correctness and complexity according ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Process%20corners
In semiconductor manufacturing, a process corner is an example of a design-of-experiments (DoE) technique that refers to a variation of fabrication parameters used in applying an integrated circuit design to a semiconductor wafer. Process corners represent the extremes of these parameter variations within which a circ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circuit%20extraction
The electric circuit extraction or simply circuit extraction, also netlist extraction, is the translation of an integrated circuit layout back into the electrical circuit (netlist) it is intended to represent. This extracted circuit is needed for various purposes including circuit simulation, static timing analysis, s...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sessility%20%28motility%29
Sessility is the biological property of an organism describing its lack of a means of self-locomotion. Sessile organisms for which natural motility is absent are normally immobile. This is distinct from the botanical concept of sessility, which refers to an organism or biological structure attached directly by its base...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20multivariable%20calculus%20topics
This is a list of multivariable calculus topics. See also multivariable calculus, vector calculus, list of real analysis topics, list of calculus topics. Closed and exact differential forms Contact (mathematics) Contour integral Contour line Critical point (mathematics) Curl (mathematics) Current (mathematics) Curvatu...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee%20algorithm
The Lee algorithm is one possible solution for maze routing problems based on breadth-first search. It always gives an optimal solution, if one exists, but is slow and requires considerable memory. Algorithm 1) Initialization - Select start point, mark with 0 - i := 0 2) Wave expansion - REPEAT - Mark all ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On-Line%20Encyclopedia%20of%20Integer%20Sequences
The On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences (OEIS) is an online database of integer sequences. It was created and maintained by Neil Sloane while researching at AT&T Labs. He transferred the intellectual property and hosting of the OEIS to the OEIS Foundation in 2009. Sloane is the chairman of the OEIS Foundation. O...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EDA%20database
An EDA database is a database specialized for the purpose of electronic design automation. These application specific databases are required because general purpose databases have historically not provided enough performance for EDA applications. In examining EDA design databases, it is useful to look at EDA tool arc...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aliasing
In signal processing and related disciplines, aliasing is the overlapping of frequency components resulting from a sample rate below the Nyquist rate. This overlap results in distortion or artifacts when the signal is reconstructed from samples which causes the reconstructed signal to differ from the original continuou...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European%20Society%20for%20Mathematics%20and%20the%20Arts
European Society for Mathematics and the Arts (ESMA) is a European society to promoting mathematics and the arts. The first Conference of ESMA, took place in July 2010 at the Institute Henri Poincaré in Paris.